July 8, 2015 - The doctor's visit

   I described my symptoms to my general practitioner. "It feels like two separate events. First is this crazy spinning out of control vertigo. That lasts for over an hour. Then comes something like a panic attack that feels like a reaction to that sensation that I've fallen off of a spaceship, and this party can last until I fall asleep."
   He ran me through a series of balance checks... marching in place with my eyes closed, focusing on a pen moving from left to right, then watching the pen move in towards my nose.  In the end, he told me he thought I had "stones" in my ears and had to refer me to an ENT who specialized in balance and problems of the inner ear.